-run delay in return to work, which might rationalize a negative causal health effect. Breaking down the results by mothers’ pre … duration from two to six months in 1979 and mothers' post-birth long-term sickness absence over a period of three decades after … childbirth. Using a regression discontinuity design, we first show that the leave extension caused mothers to significantly delay …

for these policies was to ensure the health of mothers and their newborn children. With increased female labor market … be beneficial for both maternal and child health and for mothers' labor market outcomes. Second, there appear to be …Labor market policies for expecting and new mothers emerged at the turn of the nineteenth century. The main motivation …

environment on students' physical and mental health. In this paper, we draw on rich administrative data and the features of the …

Despite plausible mechanisms, little research has evaluated potential changes in health behaviors as a result of the … health behaviors for pregnant women, which is a group of particular interest given evidence of the importance of prenatal … health to later life outcomes. We exploit exogenous variation from the Medicaid income eligibility expansions for pregnant …

maternal age has an overall detrimental effect on offspring health and cognition. We show that children born to early mothers … investigates the effect of early maternal age on offspring human capital development in terms of health and cognition, and relies … effects suggests that children and in particular girls born to very young mothers are worst off. The transmission channel …

%, only part of it due to reduced work hours. We find no evidence of an adverse health effect of having children. …

This is the first study investigating the causal effect of maternal education on child's health and schooling outcomes … significant effects on schooling outcomes for both sexes. And, we find substantial effects on health behaviour for adolescent …

for a sample of uncomplicated births from low educated mothers. We find that breastfeeding has large effects on children …'s cognitive development, but not on non-cognitive development or health. Regarding mechanisms, we estimate how breastfeeding …

This study investigates the effects of maternal education on child's health and health behavior. We draw on a rich … effects on health behavior for adolescent daughters, but neither for adolescent sons nor for the health status of newborns. We …'s health behavior, assortative mating, household income, and child¿s schooling track as possible channels of the estimated …